• 대한디지털의료영상학회논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2008

It is to improve customer satisfaction measurement and CT Scan process without delay of examination time when is using Scan positioning time(Planning time) that time is happened always between research reactor CT examination to increase fear and examination satisfaction by the customer's comprehension tribe which get the latest contrast enhancement CT examination. Needs and interests that customer wants to compose visual and auditory Contents to be played to Scan positioning time did questionnaire about curiosity later before CT examination to 600 people for October - November 2 months of 2006 to customer whole that get CT examination on source. Data getting through questionnaire investigated examination comprehension and satisfaction through questionnaire after experiment Scan Positioning to 500 coming to help customers to be source CT examination for 3 months February December - 2007 year in 2006 manufacturing Voice and Visual announce media for reference. To customer who interest degree appeared, and answers preparatory audit from preparatory audit about curiosity of CT examination customer to order of examination time required(43%), contrast media side effect(26%), examination region(20%), breath(10%), etc..(1.5%) audio-visual materials in questionnaire that attain after do reclamation among examination age, sex, reception type of irrelatively in 91% of target increase of hailing degree and examination satisfaction appear. Searched that customer hailing and satisfaction are increased greatly when use of audio-visual materials in satisfaction result that use CT Positioning delay time. In experiment process, It took lacking part by method that use hearing in case of do not use sight as is unavoidable in subject position or old age. Through this, audio-visual materials could analogize that it is more useful method that use sight and hearing at the same time.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.213-223
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• 2022

Although the number of computed tomography(CT) is increasing every year, it is insufficient to establish appropriate workload calculation standards of radiologic technologist to provide optimal medical services to patients, such as patient safety management and infection management. The purpose of this study is to present guidelines for calculating the appropriate workload of radiologic technologist by analyzing the work flow of CT procedures and the time required for CT examination in major hospitals. As for the study subjects and methods, the appropriate process for each step of CT examination was investigated to systematically present the process and time required for the actual examination, and the CT procedure time of 104,105 adult patients and 465 pediatric patients under the age of 6 were analyzed. For the time required, data according to the use of contrast medium, procedure type, and adult/child were collected and compared. The test time of CT examination using contrast medium took about 13 minutes when one radiologic technologist worked and about 9 minutes when two radiologic technologists worked. The time required for the procedures were statistically significant depending on the presence or absence of contrast medium, multi-phase procedure, and patient age (considering pediatric patients). As a result, in order to thoroughly perform patient safety and infection management, the appropriate workload increased by about 40% when there were two radiologic technologists. The limit workload was an average of 32 people per day with one radiologic technologist per 15 minutes, and 48 people per day with two radiologic technologist per 10 minutes. This is a marginal workload, and in the case of procedures that require more time to acquire radiographic images, the interval between reservations should be widened.

• 대한디지털의료영상학회논문지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.78-84
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• 2002

To evaluate the relative time required to perform a CT(computed tomography) examination in a filmless versus a film-based system and helical versus nonhelical studies. Time and Motion studies were performed in 175 consecutive CT examinations. Images from 85 examinations were electronically transferred to a PACS, and 90 were printed to film. The time required to obtain and electronically transfer the images or print the images to film and make the current and previous studies available to the radiologists for interpretation was recorded. The time required for a radiological technologist to complete a CT examination was reduced by 43% with the PACS compared with the film-based system and nonhelical was reduced 10-20% with helical studies. This reduction was due to the elimination of a transfer and printing, such as the printing at window or level settings. The use of PACS can result in the elimination of time tasks for the radiological technologist, resulting in marked reduction in examination time. This reduction can result in decreased cost and increased productivity in PACS operation.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.225-230
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• 2010

The purpose of the study was to apply and to expand the six sigma to reduce waiting times for computed tomography (CT) examination which manipulated by the department of radiology. It was preceded by DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control). In the stage of definition, it wereselected for total 5 critical to quality (CTQ), which were the kindness, the waiting time, the examination explanation, the waiting day and the waiting stand environment, that increased the reserved time of CT examination. In the stage of measurement, the number of examinations and of reservation waiting days performed and resulted in final CTQ(Y) which measured each 1.68 and 1.85 sigma. In the stage of analysis, the examination concentrated on morning time, non-scheduled examination of the day, the delayed time of booking, frequent telephone contacting and equipment malfunction were determined as variable key causes. In the stage of improvement, it were performed with expansion of the examination in the morning time, integration of laboratories that used to in each steps, developing the ability of simultaneous booking schedule for the multiple examinations, developing program of examination request, and the customer management team operations. For the control, the number of examinations and reserved waiting days were measured each 3.14 and 1.13 sigma.

• 대한두개안면성형외과학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.128-131
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• 2017

With advances in diagnostic technology, radiologic diagnostic methods have been used more frequently, and physical examination may be neglected. The authors report a case of pediatric medial orbital trapdoor fracture in which the surgery was delayed because computed tomography (CT) findings did not indicate bone displacement, incarceration of rectus muscle, or soft tissue herniation. A healthy 6-year-old boy was admitted to the emergency room for right eyebrow laceration. We could not check eyeball movement or diplopia, because the patient was irritable. Thus, we performed facial CT under sedation, but there was normal CT finding. Seven days later, the patient visited our hospital due to persistent nausea and dizziness. We were able to perform a physical examination this time. Lateral gaze of right eye was limited. CT still did not show any findings suggestive of fracture, but we decided to perform exploratory surgery. We performed exploration, and found no bone displacement, but discovered entrapped soft tissue. We returned the soft tissue to its original position. The patient fully recovered six weeks later. To enable early detection and treatment, thorough physical examination and CT reading are especially needed when the patient shows poor compliance, and frequent follow-up observations are also necessary.

• 산업공학
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.439-443
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• 2002

In this paper, we study to evaluate the relative time required to perform the CT scanning in the PACS versus a film-based system and helical versus non-helical studies. Time studies were performed in 175 consecutive CT scanning. Images from 85 examinations were electronically transferred to a PACS, and 90 were printed to film. The time required to obtain and electronically transfer the images or print the images to film and make the current and previous studies available to the radiologists for interpretation was recorded. The time required for a radiological technologist to complete a CT test was reduced by 43% with the PACS compared with the film-based system and nonhelical was reduced 10~20% with helical studies. This reduction was due to the elimination of a transfer and printing, such as the printing at window or level settings. The use of PACS can result in the elimination of time tasks for the radiological technologist, resulting in marked reduction in examination time. This reduction can result in decreased cost and increased productivity in PACS operation.

• Journal of Trauma and Injury
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.99-104
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• 2016

Purpose: There are many patients visited to ED in an alcohol intoxicated state. For these patients, it is difficult to predict by only clinical examination whether he/she would have brain lesion. The purpose of this study is to research whether it is possible to predict brain lesion by only clinical examination findings, with comparing patients with/without actual brain lesions. Methods: A retrospective study was performed at a university hospital for the period 11 months with the medical records. As for the inclusion group, head trauma patients with objectively proved drunk, judging by their blood ethanol concentration, and performed the brain CT were selected. In terms of medical record, Glasgow coma scale (GCS), the presence of neurologic abnormalities, the presence of lesion on brain CT of the patients, were examined. From laboratory results, blood ethanol concentration, platelet count, prothrombin time (PT), activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) and glucose concentration were identified. Results: For this study, there were total 80 patients of inclusion group. There was no statistically significant difference in terms of GCS score and neurological examination abnormalities, between the group with brain lesion and the group without brain lesion on brain CT. Conclusion: Alcohol intoxicated patient with head trauma visits the ED, it is not possible to distinguish or determine whether brain lesion exists or not by only clinical findings. In order to check the lesion existence, the image examination, therefore, should be considered and performed.

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제24권9호
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• pp.890-902
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• 2023

Objective: The clinical impact of artificial intelligence-based computer-aided detection (AI-CAD) beyond diagnostic accuracy remains uncertain. We aimed to investigate the influence of the clinical implementation of AI-CAD for chest radiograph (CR) interpretation in daily practice on the rate of referral for chest computed tomography (CT). Materials and Methods: AI-CAD was implemented in clinical practice at the Seoul National University Hospital. CRs obtained from patients who visited the pulmonology outpatient clinics before (January-December 2019) and after (January-December 2020) implementation were included in this study. After implementation, the referring pulmonologist requested CRs with or without AI-CAD analysis. We conducted multivariable logistic regression analyses to evaluate the associations between using AI-CAD and the following study outcomes: the rate of chest CT referral, defined as request and actual acquisition of chest CT within 30 days after CR acquisition, and the CT referral rates separately for subsequent positive and negative CT results. Multivariable analyses included various covariates such as patient age and sex, time of CR acquisition (before versus after AI-CAD implementation), referring pulmonologist, nature of the CR examination (baseline versus follow-up examination), and radiology reports presence at the time of the pulmonology visit. Results: A total of 28546 CRs from 14565 patients (mean age: 67 years; 7130 males) and 25888 CRs from 12929 patients (mean age: 67 years; 6435 males) before and after AI-CAD implementation were included. The use of AI-CAD was independently associated with increased chest CT referrals (odds ratio [OR], 1.33; P = 0.008) and referrals with subsequent negative chest CT results (OR, 1.46; P = 0.005). Meanwhile, referrals with positive chest CT results were not significantly associated with AI-CAD use (OR, 1.08; P = 0.647). Conclusion: The use of AI-CAD for CR interpretation in pulmonology outpatients was independently associated with an increased frequency of overall referrals for chest CT scans and referrals with subsequent negative results.

• 핵의학기술
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.47-51
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• 2016

FDG를 이용한 PET/CT 검사에서 FDG의 대부분이 비뇨기계를 통해 배설된다. FDG가 신장에 저류될 경우 판독 성능이 저하된다. PET-CT 검사에서 FDG의 신장 저류로 인해 추가 검사가 필요한 경우 이뇨제 사용 없이 쉬운 방법인 수분 섭취를 이용해 배설을 촉진할 수 있는 방법을 선택하는 데 도움을 주고자 한다. 11개월간 세브란스병원에서 PET-CT 검사를 시행한 환자 중 신장에 질환이 없고 기능이 정상인 환자 총 80명을 대상으로 하였다. 두 집단으로 구분하였고, 각 40명씩 구성하였다. (1) Torso 검사가 끝난 후 수분 섭취 없이 30분 동안 휴식만 취한 집단, (2) 30분 전 물 500 cc를 한 번에 섭취한 후 휴식을 취한 집단으로 나눴다. 영상분석은 SUV 측정과 Blind test, 두 가지로 하였다. SUV 측정은 양쪽 신장의 SUVmax와 근육과 지방의 SUVmax을 VOI 를 설정하여 측정하였고 간의 SUVmean을 ROI를 설정하여 측정하였다. 검증 후에 p < 0.05 인 경우를 통계적으로 유의하다고 판단하였다. Blind test는 Torso 검사와 추가 검사의 영상을 비교하여 신장 방사능 배설정도를 4등급으로 점수를 나타내어 분류 및 기록하였다. SUV 측정 결과 수분 미섭취 군의 신장 SUV 값은 6.8% 증가하였고, 수분 섭취 군의 SUV의 값은 49.7% 감소하였다(p < 0.001). Blind test에서 수분 미섭취 군의 평균은 17.25점이었고, 수분섭취 군의 평균은 34.75점으로 더 높은 점수를 나타냈다.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.29-37
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• 2016

CT 조영검사 예약환자의 원활한 검사 진행과 조영검사로 인한 부작용을 줄일 수 있는 전처치 프로세스 시스템을 개발 및 적용하여 CT 조영검사 예약환자의 검사 만족도를 높이고자 하였다. 2014년 1월부터 2014년 2월까지 CT 조영검사를 예약하여 추적검사를 시행했던 2,846명의 환자들 중 예약시간에 검사를 시행하지 못하고 지연된 214명의 환자들을 대상으로 지연사유를 분석한 후 전처치 프로세스 시스템을 구상 및 개발하여 2015년 1월부터 2015년 2월까지 전처치 프로세스 시스템을 이용하여 전처치가 필요한 644명을 대상으로 SMS 전송 시행율, SMS 전송내역, 예약시간 준수율, 예약시간 지연 사유, 예약 시간보다 지연된 시간 등을 분석하였다. 2014년 1~2월 외래 CT 조영검사 예약환자는 2,846명이었고, 그 중 예약시간에 검사를 시행하지 못한 환자는 214건으로, 약 7.52%의 비중을 차지하고 있었다. 예약시간보다 지연된 세부적인 사례는 creatinine 미확인이 98건(46%), creatinine 1.3 이상이 40건(19%), 과거조영제부작용이 34건(16%), 금식 등 전처치 미흡이 25건(11%), 메트포민제제 당뇨약 복용이 4건(2%), 기타 이유가 13건(6%)으로 나타났으며, 평균 지연시간은 creatinine 미확인이 120분, creatinine 1.3이상이 30분, 과거조영제부작용이 40분, 금식 등 전처치 미흡이 120분, 메트포민제제 당뇨약 복용이 30분, 기타 사유가 60분으로 나타났다. 2015년 1월~2 월 전처치 프로세스 시스템을 적용하여 전처치가 필요한 대상자 644명중 SMS 전송시행율은 515건(80%)으로 나타났으며, SMS 전송내역을 분석한 결과 당일 검사가 283건(44%), 진료과 방문이 185건(29%), 전처치 불필요가 47건(7%), 외래과에서 전처치 프로세스 시스템 미확인으로 SMS 전송이 안 된 건수가 129(20%)건으로 나타났다. CT 조영검사 예약시간 준수율은 전체 644건 중 560건(87%)이 예약시간 안에 검사를 시행하였으며, 예약시간보다 지연된 세부적인 사례는 creatinine 미확인이 23건(28%), creatinine 1.3이상이 11건(13%), 과거조영제부작용이 7건(8%), 금식 등 전처치 미흡이 30건(36%), 메트포민제제 당뇨약 복용이 6건(7%), 기타 이유가 7건(8%) 이었다. 예약시간보다 평균 지연된 시간은 creatinine 미확인이 90분, creatinine 1.3이상이 20분, 과거조영제부작용이 30분, 금식 등 전처치 미흡이 120분, 메트포민제제 당뇨약 복용이 30분, 기타 사유가 60분으로 나타났다. 조영제 부작용의 효율적인 관리적 측면과 CT 조영검사 예약시간에 검사가 원활하게 진행될 수 있도록 전처치 프로세스 시스템을 적용해본 결과 적용 전에 비해 전처치 준비 시간이 줄어들고 CT실, 진료실, 채혈실, 주사처치실 등의 방문횟수 및 동선이 줄어들어 CT실을 찾는 고객들의 검사만족도와 의료서비스 향상에 기여가 될 것으로 사료된다.